Point the $$ Cannon at Bakich
I thought he was better after we fired him! Lets fire him again!
What an epiphany.
FSU will have essentially zero interest in him. He does not recruit Florida, and the Florida State baseball fandom would get out the torches and pitchforks if they were to hire somebody with no recruiting contacts in the state.
There might be an opening where the AD of another school would & could throw money at him, but it's not Florida State. See if you can figure out which one it is.
https://d1baseball.com/trending/2019-college-baseball-coaching-carousel/
Incarnate Word? I seriously doubt he winds up there.
It's Rutger!
Incarnate Word?
Notre Dame or Nebraska?
Nebraska has already made their hire--the Texas A&M hitting coach who had some ties to the Nebraska program.
Yep, Will Bolt. Missed it when I first looked at the list. Would a move to ND baseball be a step back or more of a lateral move? I can't imagine he leaves UM for ND for less/the same money, right?
Wouldn't even be lateral in my opinion. Notre Dame has zero historical success in baseball--they were kind of good for a few years a couple of decades ago. That's it.
But...from all of that list, they are the only ones who would have the ability and might have the desire to offer Bakich a huge raise compared with what he's making at Michigan. I'm sure if Michigan matched he would stay.
Will Bolt?
I'd insist on an extra large buyout before hiring him.
When will Will Bolt bolt?
If I'm ND, I point the ol' money-scud at Michigan just for "fuck with" purposes.
The road goes both ways - I'm fine with throwing some money around at people just to eff with ND.
Thanks for SCUD reminder...had forgotten about everything around that.
One question, I assume
UM $$ Cannon > N.D. $$ SCUD
...right?
I just wanted to reference a long range ballistic weapon.
Good analogy, SCUDs were notoriously inaccurate too!
He does not recruit Florida
Serious question: Does he not recruit Florida because pulling those kids to Michigan is a huge lift and not worth the effort? If he were at FSU, would he still spur Florida recruits given the ease of recruiting to a local school with good weather and history?
It's like saying "BC doesn't recruit California." Well yeah, who in LA is going to want to go to BC when they could go to UCLA, or Cal State Fullerton, or any of the other nice weather schools with good baseball history.
I see your point. Yes, of course he would recruit Florida kids if he were at Florida State.
The point was more that he doesn't have any contacts in the area. Travel team coaches, high school coaches, etc. You probably recall the concerns of the Michigan fanbase when they hired a football coach with no experience inside the Big Ten footprint--it's the same sort of thing.
It's a lot easier to step into a new coaching job if you have friends in the HS coaching ranks willing to help you out with your primary job, rather than denigrating you as an outsider. This is especially true in an "everybody knows everybody" world like baseball, and in a state convinced of its own inherent athletic superiority like Florida.
Logically, I'm with you.
But FSU sites were putting out their top replacement candidates a week ago. I saw three posts highlighting 7 or 8 candidates and Bakich wasn't even listed.
FSU's retiring coach has a son who has been an assistant with him for like 20 years. They're looking at Vandy's coach and a whole bunch of baseball guys I don't know from much more baseball-y schools than Michigan.
Well, if they poach Vandy's coach then that's a much bigger problem for Michigan when Vanderbilt starts its coaching search. Bakich was an assistant coach there for 7 years.
Yes- FSU please just stick with continuity!! We don't want Vandy poking around.
For sure. But that's like Michigan hoops targeting Billy Donlon and Brad Stevens. Vandy's Corbin has been there for like 15 years with great success. He's 57. He has no Florida ties that I'm aware of. That'd be a wild move.
My point is FSU is shooting for the moon and there are a lot of names that come up before Bakich comes up, regardless of how awesome our generally baseball-ignorant fan base thinks he is.
It's like saying "BC doesn't recruit California."
True, but that's why USC wouldn't consider hiring BC's football coach and why out of region hires fail a disproportionate amount of the time.
What's your take on Bakich's reputation nationally? Obviously he's getting a lot of attention right now, but Michigan has been off the radar for the baseball elite for the rest of his tenure.
Obviously a guy in his 40s taking a team to the CWS for the first time in 35 years will get people's attention. But people will need a couple of years to see how he follows up on his success before they start thinking he's the next Rod Dedeaux.
Not to denigrate Bakich, because I personally think he is awesome, but pitching coach Chris Fetter may need a Michigan money cannon this summer a heck of a lot more than Bakich. Good news is that Fetter is also a Michigan alum, so that might help keep him around.
Thanks, Fetter would be a big loss. He must be obvious candidate to take over if Bakich were to go, but it's nice to let him focus on the pitchers.
Mike Martin Jr. is the likely successor.
The schools in NC and MLB scare me. Also, whenever Vanderbilt's coach decides to retire. Warde will up his salary to 500K+ and that would keep him happy for few more years.
Thought he was fired.
The typical board over swing.
Let's just Win baby.
Warde should throw Mr. Spots Cheese steaks and waffle fries into Bakich's new contract. That's negotiation.
TING!!
Hell, that could even get some tariffs lifted.
Mr spots might just be the answer to international politics. Who can be upset with cheesy waffle fries? If we have to compare .... sizes, simply have the opposing parties have a suicide wing off. The side that doesn’t blink wins. No bloodshed (if one ignores the bleeding stomach wall).
Not getting political or presumptuous, it's possible Mr. spots is served in the White House.
TB has it delivered to his hotel room when playing Detroit. It cures him of his avocado ice cream habit.
Only Michigan fans can go from wanting to fire a coach to only a few weeks later wanting to give him an extension.
Only two Michigan fans can go from wanting to fire a coach to only a few weeks later wanting to give him an extension.
Fixed it.
Can we fire his extension?
Or extend his firing?
Would either of those work to cover all of our bases (pun intended)?
Easiest solution: Fire Borges.
Just make sure the $$ cannon has a large spray area and I'm somewhere in range.
Fire Bakich Cannon!
This is a flukey run. Just enjoy it.
Flukey? Comung man, they beat the #22 ranked team twice, the #1 ranked team twice(@ UCLA!) and the #8 ranked team once. Oh, and their 2 losses to #22 and #1 were in extra innings. This is not at all flukey, Michigan is a very good baseball team.
I hope this was sarcasm, if not then Sparty truly doesn't know.
This is true: you're more likely to get a low-seed make a run in the NCAA baseball tournament than the NCAA basketball tournament.
Fresno State won the NCAA baseball tournament as a #4 regional seed (equivalent to a #13-#16 basketball seed) back in 2008.
But the NCAA hockey tournament is still, by far, the most "flukey" or "random" tournament. Baseball really isn't that "flukey.". The double-elimination aspect does a good job of reducing that.
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One of the memes I never tire of....
Fluky is the wrong word. Michigan has great starting pitching that allows them to contend with anyone. On the other hand, they were one strike away from missing the tournament.
MgoBlog board thread on May 23rd: "Fire Bakich"
MgoBlog board thread three weeks later: "Point money cannon at Bakich"
Wonder if that thread would’ve been better received if he titled it “Point the fire cannon at Bakich?”